Cancer, metabolism and the wisdom of Lewis Cantley on fructose
When we published Luc Tappy’s Q&A on fructose toxicity two years ago at the time of our first conference on Metabolism diet and disease, he took the line… Read more »
When we published Luc Tappy’s Q&A on fructose toxicity two years ago at the time of our first conference on Metabolism diet and disease, he took the line… Read more »
The theory of evolution by natural selection is unarguably the most influential in the history of biology, but it has been dogged with controversy since its… Read more »
Impact factors are like intelligence quotients: it’s clear they are a measure of something, but it’s not entirely clear what. BMC Biology’s has gone up… Read more »
Selective journals, in particular journals that select on grounds of interest or importance, inevitably disappoint many authors of papers that ought to be… Read more »
In the five years since the publication of the ‘Painful publishing’ letter in Science by Martin Raff , Alexander Johnson and Peter Walter, and the four… Read more »
Biologists have become wary of claiming that any cellular system is now understood but for the odd t left uncrossed, or i undotted, at least since the discovery… Read more »
Gregory Petsko, best known to BioMed Central for his inimitable comment articles in Genome Biology and BMC Biology, has this year succeeded to the Presidency of… Read more »
No, not Ockham’s razor and the parsimony principle. Ockham’s broom, newer by some centuries, is an implement conceived by Sydney Brenner whereby… Read more »
Miranda Robertson What is the re-review opt-out experiment?Read the editorial in Journal of Biology, I’m not repeating myself. (But briefly, where… Read more »